In late 1999, a quiet Malaysian cruise company made a series of audacious moves on the Oslo Stock Exchange that would stun the cruise world, reshape the global industry, and leave Carnival Corporation empty-handed. Here’s the full story of one…
In the world of cruise ships, few stories are as dramatic and unusual as that of Genting Hong Kong’s Global-class vessels. What began as an ambitious vision to create the world’s largest cruise ships for the Asian market ended in…
Genting Hong Kong Announced some more intriguing details on their upcoming mega-ship class, the Deam-class. While at a travel trade show in China, Genting announced that the first of the 208,000gt Global-class will be called Global Dream. Some additional details:…
About a year ago, I wrote an in-depth analysis of Dream Cruises new Global-Class of ships. Let’s dive in even further! Up until now, really the only details we had were the renders and this vague description of some of…
Genting Hong Kong, whom just recently transferred their Star Cruises newbuild to Dream Cruises, just announced a rather interesting figure about the Global Class newbuild. They reconfirmed that the ship will measure 204,000gt but they plan on having 2,500 cabins…
Big news here on a Friday…. Malaysian hospitality magnet Genting Group has agreed to sell off its 11.1% shares of Norwegian Cruise Lines (Star NCLC) for $543.6 million. They have been slowly divesting themselves of NCL/Star since August and stand…
Browsing MV Werften website I found these high-res photos of Crystal’s new Endeavour expedition class vessel, as well as Star’s Cruises upcoming 200,000grt behomeath Global class: Both ships seem quite exciting, and I cant wait to see her deckplans. From…
The Genting Group, parent company of NCL, Crystal and Star Cruises, announced they have reached an agreement with their subsidiary yard in Germany, Lloyd Werft, for the construction of two ships for Star Cruises. Delivery is set to be 2019…
If the outline in the steel above is the silhouette of the ship, this looks to be a modified Breakaway class vessel. Star Cruises and Germany’s Meyer Werft celebrated the steel cutting ceremony of the Genting World. The first newbuild…
Back in October, Star Cruises announced that they have signed an agreement for the construction of one ship in Germany’s Meyer Werft. Today they announced the deal has been increased to two ships. I estimate the deal to be close…
Tradewinds has the exclusive that Genting (Star and NCL’s parent company) have an MOU for the order of one ship from Germany’s Meyer Werft yard. Details are sparse as the deal ‘technically’ isn’t official yet. The usd960 Million vessel will…
According to CIN’s European sources, executives from Star Cruises are ‘in serious talks’ with a shipbuilder in Europe about a potential new build. Star Cruises is the Asian based line that is Norwegian Cruise Lines parent company. A newbuild option…
I found buried in a press release from Star Cruises this elevation drawing of the new SuperStar Gemini (ex-Norwegian Dream). She will commence voyages from Malaysia starting in January, after a $50 million drydock. click for larger
…only it wont involve Star finally getting the ship off their hands. Not very much was know about the deal where Louis Cruises was going to buy the Norwegian Majesty and Norwegian Dream from NCL’s parent company Star Cruises. The…